| Show vp tn V new york post service joe di maggio will have a tough ti time ime busting bams bam s mark T WAS just wondering 1 if joe di maggio lias has anything more than a faint chance to beat babe ruths home run record of sixty in a season the kids good nes hes probably the best two year old performer in big time history lie ile slaps a baseball at authority american league y ng is of inferior variety he gets better day by day all on the credit side the other side of the ledger is heavily red inked with the names of wilsons Wil sons Geh rigs Horns bys and other broad backed lads whose august marks and ambitions were similar to joes september licked them ruth had seventeen home runs during that thai month of his eventful 1927 season he undoubtedly was in a hitting streak and he also was the babe yet there was more than a suspicion at the time that pitchers were helping him out a bit not N it deliberately V tossing him home I 1 run balls you know a but laying fast ones down the middle instead in oaf of working the corners pitching to him in spots where during the early season when the pennant race amounted to some joe di maggio thing e they would w 0 u I 1 d not have permitted his bat to come within a foot of a good ball that so dugout gossip ran was because he was a swell guy and was aiming at a record which would stand for all time and could only be made by him anyhow nothing you could put your finger on maybe and m n fact nothing wrong with it even it you could establish any truth in the gossip so but even though that IT 17 in september has stumped all the geh rigs Horns bys and wilsons since then theres no harm in trying joes a great kid as well as a g great reat ballplayer along with ruth and a few million other tans I 1 say more power to him Dod gerson downgrade 1937 prospects poor what Is going to happen to burleigh grimes next season even it if the present owners do continue to flout the best interests of baseball by holding onto the dodgers while wondering 1 I am not trying to rap the unshaven gentleman who has managed boget himself thrown out of almost as many ball games as aa his team has won this season but facts are facts A few of these facts are that the dodgers are not as strong and as interesting as they were twelve months ago the hustling spirit displayed in sy late july august and september of 1936 is missing in spite of front office TV manipulated ba ballyhoo to the contrary i the now ailing one or two other pitchers for whom stengel took burleigh the blame last year grimes while preparing them for future stardom manush and english veterans with one final flash left in them have sustained the club the truth is that the club Is worse off so far as developing material tor for a winner next season than it was in 1936 the truth also is that the front office is more interested in applauding the rowdy behavior ot of its special policemen and in houn hounding d little boys who chase baseballs in the bleachers than it is in improving for 1938 so I 1 am wondering about Burl burleigh elgh and his sad international leaguers stengel was fired and still is bei being ing paid the due him on his contract because his bis team played the second best ball in the league from july 4 until october i 1936 national league ball players are beginning to doubt the infallibility of umpire bill klems decisions they continue to plug dolly stark as the best in the business except when he gets excited beans Rear dons work behind the plate babe Pi nellis snappy doings on the bases and george allaround all around ca also receive kind words NOT IN THE BOX SCORE E estates THERE HERE is a map of the united states in bill terrys polo grounds office with red pins mark ing each city or hamlet that has a ball club are sonja henle henie and promoter jeff dickson about to in bulge in a 50 G lawsuit and lif if so it all about keep ar eye on little jane stanton califor nias latest gift to tennis there arf an those who insist she will be even better than jacobs or marble within another year and anyhow it will be a treat for your eyes just looking at al her american horse owners are doing well by themselves abroad J E wideners wideness Wid eners two year old ble won his third straight in the richmond stakes and ralph B Strass burgers Firoze pore whipped the best sprinters in britain at al goodwood recently when the first international yacht race was held between great britain and the united states the british took one took look at the america visit ing boat and absolutely refused tr bet that may seem strange behavior for or citizens who boast of their sportsmanship but it also was wisdom although the home team made everything as has possible for the visitors america won easily jimmy dykes knows that he will have to trade some of his pretty pitchers next winter for a catcher and outfield power to catch chetan kees aces in 1938 1 1 1 prettiest pitcher of the lot is monty stratton who throws overhand sidi sidearm arm underhand and very well coach billy ily webb of the white so sox x Is al most as accomplished a sign stealer as detro its oits del baker yoa yen dont want sign stealers steamers when you play the yankees though you want howitzers howit ted broadribb manager ottom ot tom my farr claims to have another heavyweight who some day may be b considerably better than the welsh man this new sensation is still an amateur but he is an and his father is a cousin of gene tun ney Is mother his name lydon was mrs tunnels Tun maiden name when the wealthy wealth young dunbar W bostwick drove his hollywood audrey in the Hamb letonian at goshen recently he was the second amateur ever to compete inthe classic the first was john L dodge of lexington ky I 1 I 1 mid weekly nomination for the worlds worst bungling sports organization the united states goll golf association yankees helped giants get blondy ryan the giants freely admit that they liever would have haire been able to get blondy ryan without the assistance of the yankees after terry had been stymied on the deal for two weeks the yanks bought blondy from milwaukee ostensibly for their kansas City farm then hen sold him to their national league rivals if joe behaves himself and lust les lie he may be a giant next season jimmy rip blondy ryan probably will be put on the trading block this winter does the sudden appointment of babe Hamber geras road secretary mean that the dodgers really are going to be sold usually wellin well in lv formed baseball people are saying that it doe does sand and that business manager john gorman german Is staying at home to get the books in shape a job which he does superlatively cleo Locate locatelli ill the welterweight writes from his home in italy thai that 1 II 11 I duce is readying several more good box fighters to come overmere over here and collect next winter I 1 I 1 I 1 every member of the As from connie mack down to the bat boy has been sick or injured at one time or another this year wes ferrell is planning to enter the movies in the fall I 1 I 1 pitcher jimmy deshong wants to tour the country with his own band when hes through with baseball tip from a veteran and wellin well in formed minor leaguer That claim about newark stepping into the national league and finishing io in the first division is overrated the international ter league Is very 0 this year zeke bonura indignantly denies rumors that he eats spaghetti for breakfast each a m the big first baseman says he has had eggs every morning since he joined the white sox while the smaller clubs continue to suffer close to impo cash customers have witnessed the popular price fights at the garden this summer I 1 I 1 one of joe Medwick Med wicks s jersey 9 neighbors and pals reports dizzy dean ai as def headed tor for the giants next year says teammates believe au all the great mans carryings carry ings on ot of he past tew few months are merely he build up in other words branch rickey master manipulator if A the cards wants to get the st i ouis tans fans fed up with dizzy |
